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Public appearance confirmedMount Pleasant and Strathcona all candidates meeting · 7 pm
Candidate research / September 22, 2026
This record covers Michael Robert Caditz, leader of the Independent Parks Party and its candidate for Park Board commissioner at ballot number 226. Caditz has a documented public record as an opponent of the Stanley Park tree removal project, including two public petitions and a court case reported by several news outlets.
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7 pm
Mount Pleasant and Strathcona all candidates meeting
Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver
The organiser's event page names Caditz as one of the Park Board candidates attending.
Hosted by the Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association with the Strathcona Community Centre Association, moderated by Alex Sasha Burton. Park Board candidates listed as attending are Breanne Smart, John Irwin, Jon Girard, Michael Robert Caditz and Summit Wannamaker. The meeting opens with questions from community association representatives, then a moderated public question period on housing, parks, climate action, safety and affordability.
- All Candidates Meeting, September 23Event organizer · Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association
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01 / Introduction
About Michael Robert Caditz
Michael Robert Caditz appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 226. The City records the affiliation as Independent Parks Party.
Caditz appears at ballot number 226 as an Independent Parks Party candidate for Park Board commissioner in the election held on October 17, 2026.
The Independent Parks Party was registered in 2026, is led by Caditz, and describes its approach as bottom up governance and good governance. It has no elected members.
The party website names Caditz as its authorized representative and names the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, a British Columbia non-profit organization, as its parent organization.
News reporting names Caditz as a lead member of the Stanley Park Preservation Society and as one of the people who brought the society's court applications against the city and the Park Board.
In a bylined article in Watershed Sentinel dated February 1, 2025, Caditz is described as a founding director of the Stanley Park Preservation Society and a long time Vancouver resident with a background in philosophy and sustainable energy management. That description appears in an article Caditz wrote.
Caditz started a Change.org petition on February 8, 2024 asking the Park Board to halt tree removal in Stanley Park. The petition had 23,382 verified signatures when the page was read.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list and the campaign material linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
Promises / Commitments and evidence
Commitments and the available evidence.
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1 commitments shown · Checked Sep 22
Forest management and public decision-making
Public records and professional material connect this candidacy with Stanley Park preservation advocacy.
Evidence & next checks
- Evidence reviewed
- Taken from the campaign page listed in the sources. No independent confirmation was found.
- What still needs checking
- What would this cost, who would deliver it, and by when?
- Public professional profileCampaign · Independent Parks Party
City programs / Scope and delivery
Policies, budgets & programs
Each entry below names its source. Campaign material is the candidate's own account. Nothing here is presented as a verified outcome unless the entry says so.
Petition asking the Park Board to halt tree removal in Stanley Park
Caditz started a public petition calling on the Vancouver Park Board to stop removing native coastal western hemlock trees and replacing them with Douglas fir, cedar and red alder. The petition says the city did not provide credible scientific evidence for its safety claims, says standing dead trees are habitat rather than the fire hazard claimed, and says there is a conflict of interest because the contractor doing the work also did the assessment.
Scope, limits and sources
The petition had 23,382 verified signatures when the page was read. A petition is a public demand and carries no legal effect.
- Petition: halt logging of Stanley ParkCampaign · Change.org
Court application to stop the Stanley Park tree removal project
Justice Maegen Giltrow of the B.C. Supreme Court refused to grant an injunction stopping the $18 million project. The judge found a negligence claim was the wrong legal route. The judge also said the petitioners raised credible and legitimate questions about a process that ran behind closed doors for more than a year, and noted the city's own lawyer called the identity of the decision maker unclear.
Scope, limits and sources
theBreaker.news names Caditz among the people who brought the application. After the ruling Caditz said the group was waiting to see what the Park Board would do before deciding how to proceed.
- Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardReporting · theBreaker.news
Petition asking Park Board commissioner Tom Digby to resign
Caditz started a public petition asking Green Party Park Board commissioner Tom Digby to resign. The petition says more than 7,000 trees were cut in the winter of 2023 to 2024, says Digby claimed defoliated conifers were a wildfire and falling risk without enough scientific support, and says Digby set aside testimony from scientists at Park Board meetings on October 7 and 8, 2024.
Scope, limits and sources
The petition had 931 verified signatures against a goal of 1,000 when the page was read. Digby remained a commissioner and is a candidate in the 2026 election at ballot number 222.
- Petition: demand the resignation of Park Board Commissioner Tom DigbyCampaign · Change.org
- Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot orderReporting · Daily Hive
Judicial review filed in the B.C. Supreme Court
The Stanley Park Preservation Society filed a petition asking the court to rule that the Park Board and city council went beyond their authority and to cancel contracts with B.A. Blackwell and Associates Ltd. The society also asked for an order allowing only the removal of trees assessed one by one as an immediate danger to the public.
Scope, limits and sources
The city's position is that hemlock looper moths killed about 160,000 trees and that removal is needed to stop falling trees and reduce wildfire fuel, at a cost of $18 million. The society says the assessment method was wrong and that machine logging breaks up the forest floor, reduces canopy and damages roots.
- Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop loggingReporting · theBreaker.news
Judicial review adjourned, then updated after the July 2025 board decision
Caditz told Vancity Lookout that the society had adjourned its case until after the Park Board's July 21, 2025 meeting and would now file updated court materials alleging procedural errors at that meeting, and that the hearing was expected to be scheduled within two months.
Scope, limits and sources
Caditz also said the city had agreed that tree removal would not resume until after a court decision. No ruling was found in any source opened up to September 22, 2026.
- Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gearReporting · Vancity Lookout
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Statement
Response to the court ruling on the injunction
After the injunction was refused, Caditz told theBreaker.news the group was waiting to see what the Park Board would do before deciding how to proceed.
- Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardReporting · theBreaker.news
Statement
Bylined article on the Stanley Park tree removal
In Watershed Sentinel, Caditz argued against the plan, quoting a Diamond Head Consulting report that a detailed tree by tree assessment is needed to identify and manage hazardous trees, and criticized the stated goal of removing hemlocks and replanting other species.
- Stanley Park is FallingReporting · Watershed Sentinel
Interview
Comments on the judicial review and the final phase of tree removal
Caditz told Vancity Lookout the society would file updated court materials alleging procedural errors at the July 21, 2025 Park Board meeting, expected a hearing within two months, and said the city had agreed not to resume tree removal until a court decision was issued.
- Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gearReporting · Vancity Lookout
Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
Court application brought by Caditz and others was refused
Caditz was one of the people who brought the Stanley Park Preservation Society's application to stop the city's Stanley Park tree removal project. Justice Maegen Giltrow refused the injunction on October 5, 2024, finding a negligence claim was the wrong legal route. The judge did say the petitioners raised credible and legitimate questions about the process.
Candidate or party response
Caditz said the group was waiting to see what the Park Board would do before deciding how to proceed. The society then filed a judicial review, reported on February 10, 2025.
Verified status and limits
The injunction was refused on October 5, 2024. The judicial review was adjourned until after the Park Board's July 21, 2025 meeting, and updated court materials were to follow. No ruling on the judicial review was found in any source opened up to September 22, 2026.
- Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardReporting · theBreaker.news
- Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop loggingReporting · theBreaker.news
- Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gearReporting · Vancity Lookout
Petition calling for a sitting commissioner to resign
Caditz started a public petition asking Green Party Park Board commissioner Tom Digby to resign over the Stanley Park tree removal decisions. Caditz and Digby are now both candidates for Park Board in the same election, at ballot numbers 226 and 222.
Candidate or party response
No published reply from Digby to the petition was found. In July 2025 Digby said there is ecological value in dead trees left standing and on the ground, and said no other commissioner wanted a public discussion of the forestry plan.
Verified status and limits
The petition had 931 verified signatures against a goal of 1,000 when the page was read. Digby did not resign and is a candidate in the October 17, 2026 election.
- Petition: demand the resignation of Park Board Commissioner Tom DigbyCampaign · Change.org
- Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gearReporting · Vancity Lookout
- Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot orderReporting · Daily Hive
News coverage / Original publishers
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Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park board
Bob Mackin reported that Justice Maegen Giltrow refused the injunction while criticizing more than a year of closed door decision making, and named Caditz among those bringing the application.
- Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardReporting · theBreaker.news
Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop logging
Bob Mackin reported the society's B.C. Supreme Court petition, what it asks for, and the city's account of hemlock looper damage and the $18 million cost.
- Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop loggingReporting · theBreaker.news
Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gear
Reported the Park Board's approval of the final phase and named Caditz as a lead member of the society, with comments on the state of the judicial review.
- Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gearReporting · Vancity Lookout
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot order
Listed all 35 Park Board candidates in ballot order, with Caditz at number 226 for the Independent Parks Party.
- Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot orderReporting · Daily Hive
Research / 11 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
Official record 2 sources
- Election dates and voting information
City of Vancouver
- Where to vote
City of Vancouver
Campaign 3 sources
- Petition: halt logging of Stanley Park
Change.org · February 8, 2024
- Petition: demand the resignation of Park Board Commissioner Tom Digby
Change.org · November 4, 2024
- Public professional profile
Independent Parks Party
Reporting 5 sources
- Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot order
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
- Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park board
theBreaker.news · October 5, 2024
- Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop logging
theBreaker.news · February 10, 2025
- Final phase of Stanley Park logging approved, and a legal challenge kicks back into gear
Vancity Lookout · July 23, 2025
- Stanley Park is Falling
Watershed Sentinel · February 1, 2025
Event organizer 1 sources
- All Candidates Meeting, September 23
Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association
No platform or promise in Caditz's own words as a 2026 candidate could be read, so the promises list is empty. The Independent Parks Party website at parksparty.vote loads its text in the browser after the page arrives, which means an automated read returns only the menu, and no candidate page was reachable. The party's ideas are recorded above as the party's. The LinkedIn profile given in the candidate list returns an error code to automated requests and was never read, and the Medium page refuses automated requests, so the education and career details circulating about Caditz were not confirmed and are left out. The City of Vancouver website refuses automated requests, so no Park Board minute or candidate filing was checked. No ruling on the Stanley Park Preservation Society judicial review was found in any source up to September 22, 2026, so the case is recorded as pending. Other people were named alongside Caditz as bringing the court application; they are not candidates and are not named here.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Public professional profile and official court record; current platform incomplete.
Checks still to do: Use current original court and forestry records; distinguish an application, a ruling and a campaign interpretation.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Founding director, Stanley Park Preservation Society
The society brought a court application in 2024 seeking to stop the Stanley Park tree removal project and filed a judicial review in 2025. Reporting names Caditz as one of the people bringing the applications and as a lead member of the society. The founding director title comes from an article Caditz wrote.
Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardLeader and authorized representative, Independent Parks Party
Leads a party registered in 2026 that runs five Park Board candidates and no city council candidates.
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot order04 / Questions & answers
Questions for the candidate
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What evidence and public process should determine tree-management decisions?
No response has been submitted.
How would you divide funding between existing-facility maintenance, affordable access and new construction?
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05 / Candidate contributions
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